Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo

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Sir E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) is these days most commonly referred to as the writer of such books as The Egyptian Book of the Dead (1895), The Gods of Egypt (1904), and An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary (1920). Born an impoverished and illegitimate child in rural Cornwall, Budge bit and clawed his way through the barriers of Victorian and Edwardian class prejudice to a knighthood in 1920. As Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities within the British Museum from 1894 to 1924, Budge’s career used to be entwined with the great issues of his day: the upward thrust of the European Empires within the Middle East and the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the French and British struggle to regulate Egypt and its antiquities; the conflicts between Ottoman and European antiquarian interests within the Ottoman province of Iraq; and the British invasion and colonization of the Sudan. Budge used to be both a proponent of a liberalized Christianity and a believer within the reality of the occult world, and his books were viewed by many as a number one source for alternative religious inspiration. More than an account of the professional conflicts and the controversial smuggling of antiquities for which Budge is now remembered in academic circles, that is an intriguing story of antiquities and empire – and of how one man’s life used to be saturated with both.

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